Chronic pain disproportionately affects women, girls, non-binary people, trans people, and those assigned female at birth, yet this population has historically been under-researched, under-diagnosed, and under-treated. Conditions like endometriosis, fibromyalgia, and interstitial cystitis affect millions, and patients often wait years for a diagnosis while their pain is dismissed or minimized in clinical settings. Doloris is built with this reality in mind.
Our platform gives users a daily space to describe their pain in their own words, not by circling a number on a scale, but through open-ended journaling and creative prompts that capture the full texture of what they’re experiencing. Our platform then analyzes this language over time, identifying patterns and generating structured reports that users can bring to clinical appointments. For populations whose pain is routinely undertreated, having documented, longitudinal evidence of their experience can meaningfully shift the clinical conversation.
Our first beta partnership was with the SSMU Menstrual Health Initiative at McGill University, working directly with people experiencing endometriosis or other pelvic-associated pain, conditions that can take upwards of a decade to diagnose.
The platform’s visual stimulus features, developed with the U.S. National Gallery of Art, invites users to engage with pain through visual and metaphorical language. This is an approach particularly valuable for experiences that are hard to articulate, and that have long gone unnamed. Doloris doesn’t just track pain. It helps people to find community and find themselves.